The use of resinous substances, certainly one the earliest technologies developed by humans, was well-known Holocene hunter-gatherers at onset Neolithisation process across Europe. Recent research has revealed birch bark tar in central Mediterranean far from this taxon’s endemic regions both Paleolithic and Neolithic periods shows that first farmers Fertile Crescent hafted lithic tools waterpro...

Abstract The Neolithic sites of the Cyclops Cave and Agios Petros provide insights into a once flourishing culture that inhabited ‘Deserted Islands’ northern Sporades in Greek north Aegean. Building on scientific analysis ceramics from seasonally Cave, present study examines detail 39 sherds permanently settled site adjacent island Kyra Panagia, using combination thin section petrography, geoch...

Long-term research of the Linear Pottery Culture easternmost excavated site faced a number obstacles in interpretation stratigraphy and objects shape. It happens mostly because features sedimentation post-deposition processes Ukraine that are quite different from Central European ones. Newly applied method 3D-point cloud analysis performed Kamyane-Zavallia, Ukraine, introduced opportunity to de...

The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human subsistence practices and sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples. The radiocarbon ages of the archaeological contexts of the earliest sherds are 20,0...

Abrupt arid events in the post-glacial (w17.4–10 kyr BP) Dead Sea Basin (DSB) were recorded by significant lake level declines in Lake Lisan and massive deposition of gypsum and salt. Between 17.4 and 16 kyr cal BP, the lake level dropped from its late MIS2 stand of w260 m below mean sea level (m bmsl) to w330 m bmsl, depositing a thick sequence of gypsum. Between w16 and 15 kyr cal BP the lake...